Marie Kovarnikova

Marie Kovarnikova (16 February 1914-24 October 1942) was a Czechoslovak Resistance member who participated in Operation Anthropoid during World War II.

Biography
Marie Kovarnikova was born in Ohrazenice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary on 16 February 1914, and she worked as a maid for Marie Moravec and her family for years. In 1942, she was introduced to Jozef Gabcik and Jab Kubis, two Czechoslovak Resistance fighters who sought refuge in the Moravec household, and she became the lover of Kubis after posing as his girlfriend. She assisted the two parachutists in planning out Operation Anthropoid, the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, and she was arrested by the Gestapo in the aftermath of the operation. On 24 October 1942, Kovarnikova and several other resistance members were executed by firing squad at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.